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Patented July 28, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. MOORE, OF EAST HAMPTON, MASSAOHUSET' S, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOSEPH YV. GREEN, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

LOOM-SHUTTLE RACEWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,675, dated July 28, 1891.

Application filed August 2, 1890. Serial No. 360,790. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: opposite sides of an opening. Thus by Be it known that I, GEORGE O. MOORE, a slightly lowering one of the rollers B and its 55 citizen of the United States, residing at East companion roller B the point of a shuttle as I-Iampton, in the county of Hampshire and it passes an opening may be raised somewhat, 5 Stateof Massachusetts,have invented certain so that it will properly enter between the new and usefullmprovenientsin L'oom-Shutpairs of rollers on the opposite side of the tie Raceways, of which the following is a speciopening. 60 fication, reference being had therein to the To properly hold the rollercarrying pins or accompanying drawings. bolts in place and to provide for the free run- My invention has for its object to provide ning of the rollers thereon, said pins are proan improved shuttle-raceway for looms of vided at d with shoulders, between which such construction that the shuttles will at all and the front face of the lay are preferably 65 times run smoothly and easily, with butlittle placed washers e,and on the opposite or rear friction, and which provides for adjustment face of the lay beneath the nuts f are also 1 5 to compensate for wear, so that danger of placed washers e.

breakage of the shuttles or the parts forming The peripheries of the lower rollers B are the shuttle-race, owing to the points of the preferably at a greater distance from the face 70 shuttles falling too low as wear occurs,1nay of the lay than the peripheries of the upper be avoided. My improved race also permits rollers, as I find by this arrangement of the of the use of shorter shuttles than in the old rollers the shuttles are better balanced.

construction of shuttle-races, owing to the The shuttles may be driven in any suitable fact that they may have less play, so that a manner, as by rack and pinion, peg-shot, or 75 larger number of narrow-ware webs may be fly-shot, as will be readily understood. woven at one time on a loom of equal length, I claimthus economizing space. 1. A shuttle-race for looms, consisting of a In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is lay having openings for the warps, combined an elevation of a portion of a shuttle-raceway with a series of rollers attached to said lay 8o constructed in accordance with my invention, and having rounded peripheries to enter one of the shuttles being shown in position. grooves in the shuttle, two pairs of said roll Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2, Fig. 1, but on a ers being arranged on each side of each of somewhat larger scale. said openings.

A denotes a portion of a loom-lay having, 2. A shuttle-race for looms, consisting of a 85 at proper intervals, openings at for the paslay having openings for the warps, combined sage of the warps. Attached to said lay bewith a series of rollers attached to said lay tween said openings are rollersB BB having and having rounded peripheries to enter rounded edges or peripheries, as shown, said grooves in the shuttles, and means for adj ustrollers being arranged in pairs vertically and ing said rollers, the peripheries of the lower 90 properly separated to receive between them rollers being farther from the face of the lay shuttles O, having grooves c on their opposite than the peripheries of the upper rollers.

40 sides to be entered by the rollers, the latter The combination, with the lay A, having thus supporting and guiding the shuttles. warp-openings a and slots at, of the shoul- The rollers are supported by headed bolts or dered pins or bolts d, adjustably secured in 5 pins d, having screw-threaded shanks d,passsaid slots, the rollers turning on said pins or ing through slots a in the lay A, said slots bolts,the securing-nuts fiand the washers in- 5 permitting of vertical adjustment of the said terposed between the said lay and the said bolts or pins to compensate for the wear of nuts and also between the lay and the shoulthe shuttles and rollers. The rollers are also ders of the said pins or bolts. I00 preferably so disposed that there will be two In testimony whereoflaflix my signature in pairs thereof on each side of each opening a, presence of two witnesses.

in the lay, so that by proper adjustment of GEO. O. MOORE.

the rollers the shuttles can be carried across Vitnesses: said openings without danger of striking the J Os. XV. GREEN, J12, point of a shuttle against the rollers on the O. H. JOHNSON. 

